The Jakarta Health Office formulates the kampong reformation program in 2023 in collaboration with other Regional Governmental Apparatus Organizations (OPDs) to realize clean environmental sanitation.
“We have a program that has to handle this kampong reformation,” Head of the Jakarta Health Office Widyastuti stated here, Monday.
The 2023 kampong reformation became one of the topics of discussion beyond the development of COVID-19 cases during a meeting led by Acting Governor of Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono at the Jakarta City Hall.
The Jakarta Health Office, along with related OPDs, will discuss in further detail about the locations of the reformed kampongs, including from a health standpoint.
Study involving other OPDs will also be undertaken to implement the kampong reformation program.
“The Jakarta Health Office also conducts reformation from a health standpoint,” she noted.
Some time ago, the environmental health issue came to the attention of the Jakarta Regional House of Representatives (DPRD). One of them was related to the fact that people still practiced open defecation.
During the DPRD plenary meeting on November 9, Jakarta DPRD member Thomas Nugraha Syamsul highlighted that 770 thousand residents of Jakarta had practiced open defecation.
This information was revealed from the Jakarta Health Office’s data in 2021.
To this end, the Jakarta DPRD called for additional budget for provision of the communal septic tank.
This tank provision measure is directed toward densely populated slums. However, the institution did not provide details on areas that still practiced open defecation.
Moreover, the Jakarta Water Resources Office has revitalized 11 communal sanitation facilities in five areas within the capital city to realize proper and safe public sanitation.
Earlier, the West Java Health Office also stated that the provincial government of West Java was targeting all districts and cities in the province to be free from open defecation by 2030.
At the start, all regions of West Java were expected to be free from open defecation by 2023, West Java Health Office’s official, Yuntina Erdani, stated in Bandung, West Java, on November 18, 2022.
Source: Antara News